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Roy Jafari
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Roy Jafari

Roy Jafari, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of business analytics at the University of Redlands. Roy has taught and developed college-level courses that cover data cleaning, decision making, data science, machine learning, and optimization. Roy's style of teaching is hands-on and he believes the best way to learn is to learn by doing. He uses active learning teaching philosophy and readers will get to experience active learning in this book. Roy believes that successful data preprocessing only happens when you are equipped with the most efficient tools, have an appropriate understanding of data analytic goals, are aware of data preprocessing steps, and can compare a variety of methods. This belief has shaped the structure of this book.
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Comparing populations

Putting these kinds of summarizing visualizations of different populations next to one another will be useful to create visuals that help us compare those populations. This can be done with histograms, boxplots, and bar charts. Let's see how this is done using the following three examples.

Example of comparing populations using boxplots

Write some code that creates the following two boxplots next to one another:

  • A boxplot of education-num for data objects with an income value that is <=50K
  • A boxplot of education-num for data objects with an income value that is >50K

Give the preceding example a try on your own before looking at the following code:

income_possibilities = adult_df.income.unique()
for poss in income_possibilities:
    BM = adult_df.income == poss
    plt.hist(adult_df[BM]['education-num'], label=poss,     histtype='step')
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Roy Jafari

Roy Jafari, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of business analytics at the University of Redlands. Roy has taught and developed college-level courses that cover data cleaning, decision making, data science, machine learning, and optimization. Roy's style of teaching is hands-on and he believes the best way to learn is to learn by doing. He uses active learning teaching philosophy and readers will get to experience active learning in this book. Roy believes that successful data preprocessing only happens when you are equipped with the most efficient tools, have an appropriate understanding of data analytic goals, are aware of data preprocessing steps, and can compare a variety of methods. This belief has shaped the structure of this book.
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